Re: C99 (was: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc)

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On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:02:08AM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > First of all, it's a pity we had to reach the fork stage and the consequent dilution of already scarce resources.
> > Personally, I wish that this could be solved and the fork could be forgotten.
> 
> I absolutely agree. Thank you for putting this into words. I am
> saddened that it has come to this.
> 
> > We should soon be in freeze for the Q1 branching which, I think won't happen this time.
> 
> This is a good question. Do we have someone to run the Q1 branch? I
> thought there was a volunteer for it (Maya?).
> 

That might've been Jason Bacon, but it's unclear whether they
volunteered for this reading their email again.

I'm not the best choice for being responsible for branching (my
involvement has been more sporadic lately) but I can do it for Q1.
I've got my "no" responses all armed up and ready.

What is the expected start of freeze and branching dates?

> > So, my suggestion would be to freeze the tree completly for a 2 - 3 weeks (not even leaf packages allowed) and let jperkin do whatever he needs/wants to do.
> 
> Radical! Would it help though? Jonathan?
> 
> -- 
> Benny